Add text to downloaded CSV file

Hi.
I'm trying to place a text at the bottom of the csv file, but I can not find the way to do it.
What I'm trying to do is, after all rows downloaded in my csv file, I'd like to place a general comment in the next row regarding some information about the data I've downloaded.
Is this possible?
Thanks
Ivo

one of my colleagues might have a better answer for this, but one not-so-elegant way to get a message to display at the bottom of your csv output would be to manually put your own "download to csv" link on your page. have that link go to another page in your app that reports on the same query as your original report. put a region of type HTML right after your duplicate report region that displays the text you want to see in your csv output (be sure to use "No Template" for this region's template). change the report template of the second report region to "export: CSV". now when users click your manually added "download to csv" link, they'll be linked over to your other page. that page will immediately output the csv data as well as the additional line from your extra HTML region.
hope this helps,
raj

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